Speaking of it being illegal, we went back there again last night to take my little 4 year old nephew to see it. We sit in an empty lot across the street to watch it, but everyone else was just pulling up in front of the house, on both sides of the street, and pulling off to the side and watching. At one point there was about 6 or 7 cars in the street watching, and a cop car came and turned it's lights on and sat there in the middle of the road until everyone left.

Chlorinated Detergents are not so great for rubber dishwasher seals, admittingly. However.. they are not horrific. They we're used for decades in automatic dishwashers without problems, and I'd equally say that most machines made within the last 10 years are designed to handle corrosive, high PH detergent formulations. I have however noticed that there is a significant problem with GE & Hotpoint made machines though, concerning the Main Wash Dishwasher Detergent Cup leaking or allowing water to spray in, before the main wash cycle. Because of this, most if not all of the detergent is wasted, long before the actual wash cycle.. causing spotting & lackluster performance. I correlate this problem with the the fact that most detergents are now made with Higher PH's due to lack of cleaning agents, and substitutes for Chlorine, which may be too much for the very poorly designed rubber seal seated around the interior of the cup. Despite this... GE's engineers say it's not a concern, and they believe dishes will come out "adequately clean" for consumers.

UPDATE: Went to check the tree out before I took DH over there tonight. ( I knew that we would have to wait a long time to get help and get the thing down and packed up.) I noticed that a few of the sections were not lighting up. I asked the manager about it and he said that the fuses must have burned out. And the only way to find out was to take the tree apart, find out "which" fuses, and then see if they had replacement fuses. The original box and all extra lights and fuses were thrown out. Also, one string of lights had come undone from the branches. The kicker was when two patrons came in looking for fuses for their trees. One person had recently purchased hers at Lowe's. Neither found their fuses at Lowe's! One man told me not to buy the tree because it was a nightmare trying to find not only which fuse has burned out, but also locating new fuses in the store. So after taking a second to decide, I got a refund and walked out. :( Thanks for the quick advice!

eld, I was really struck by just how much everything is decorated there. It felt so Christmasy looking at all her shots, and she was just taking them of the "girls". It really put me in the spirit. I'd go if I was closer :)